Atomic blonde (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: David Leitch
	Actors: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones, Sofia Boutella
	Country: D, USA, S
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 07.08.2017, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English with German subtitles
Synopsis: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin in 1989 to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
Review: The story is a classical double agent movie. The originality comes from the time when the story takes place. Berlin just before the fall of the wall. The suspiscions are therefore complex between the double agents, the Stasi agents, the Russian, the Freedom movements, the CIA, the HMS intelligence service. The music and the archive footage are very good and brought me really in a time when I was a child looking at these events on TV.  The story is built so that after a while (some dead bodies, some German policemen or Russian agents kicked off) it is not really interesting. And this is a pity, because there are some good actors that could have been used better, such as McAvoy and Marsan.  I liked the crude fight scenes, where anything is used and unlike James Bond movies, all fighters got hurt. There is also one very hot scene with the French agent Delphine Lasalle (Boutella) that will be printed in many minds.
Rating: 4 /10